981 private quotes tagged men

“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.” — Robert Kennedy

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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” — Herman Melville

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke

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“Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.” — Franz Liszt

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“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.” — Aristotle

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“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.” — Plato

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“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.” — William Shakespeare

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“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.” — Victor Hugo

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“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.” — Voltaire

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“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” — George Orwell

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“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.” — William Blake

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“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.” — Voltaire

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“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.” — Richard Whately

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“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” — Aristotle

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“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” — Sun Tzu

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“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.” — Karl Marx

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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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